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Compare ꜥf(“there”) and ꜥꜣ(“here, there”), apparently paralleling the several series of demonstrative determiners with endings -n, -f, -ꜣ, for instance pn, pf, and pꜣ.
Unmarked for number and gender, but treated syntactically as masculine plurals when used with participles and relative forms, and as feminine singulars when referred to by resumptive pronouns.
Originally joined by n(j) to nouns they modify; later without it.
References
“ꜥn (lemma ID 38050)”, “ꜥn (lemma ID 38020)”, “ꜥn (lemma ID 38080)”, and “ꜥn (lemma ID 38000)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
